Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for March 10, 2001

March 03, 2001

March 17, 2001

Transcript:

Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling
Billy Dare
Boy Adventurer with Quentin
SMUGGLERS' CAPE - Ch. MCDXXI: Hot on the Trail!
Billy Dare: Criminey! The seat is still warm! Let's go, Quentin...
...we can catch Dr. Mordu!
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Quentin: Is that what you want, Billy?
Billy Dare: What you you mean?
...and I didn't know you could TALK!
Quentin: I can't talk! For these purposes, I'm merely the personification of your inner struggle!
Billy Dare: Inner struggle?
Quentin: Look, it's been 1,421 chapters, and we still haven't even seen Dr. Mordu, or Smuggler's Cove!
Quentin: Isn't it time you realized that you're not chasing Mordu -- you're running from yourself?
Billy Dare: Huh? I don't have inner struggles! I'm a two-dimensional cartoon character!
Quentin: There's no such thing! For example, why do you always rebuff the advances of your neighbor, Sally Sweet?
Quentin: Isn't your obsession with Mordu a convenient way of covering for your...latent homosexuality?
Billy Dare: What's THAT?
Quentin: OR: maybe in chasing this mysterious, powerful stranger, it's a way of running TOWARD...HEY!
Billy Dare: Hold still! What's this strange device that was under your wing?
Billy Dare: As I thought! Dr. Mordu must have planted this POST-MODERN LITERARY DEVICE on you -- to sidetrack me for ten panels, while he escaped!
Quentin: SQUAK!
NEXT: Deconstruction on the high seas!